The claim went round after his re-election. It is not true, and the speed at which it spread says something about how Nigerian political rumour now works.

We cannot keep counting bodies, the NDC candidate said of the latest killings. The framing matters: a country not at war has fewer excuses for a casualty count than one that is.

Zacch Adedeji runs the Federal Inland Revenue Service. Melaye's objection is that a serving revenue chief has no business inside a partisan campaign structure, and on that narrow point he has a case.

Donation limits and party finances, published, before the money moves. Nigeria has campaign finance rules. What it has never had is any way for a voter to check them.

An outfit soliciting support from Nigerians while presenting itself as federal. A coordinator circulating an appointment letter. And three permanent secretaries suspended in the same period.

Abdulaziz Yari is Director-General. Hope Uzodimma is Secretary. Uzodimma is also the man Rochas Okorocha is suing over the Imo West senate ticket, and that case is still live.

Sanwo-Olu handed N20m apiece to students with 4.96 and 4.97 CGPAs, in the same month Nigerian social media has been busy calling successful young people olodo. The two stories are the same argument.

Seven years and seven months as a permanent secretary, across police affairs, humanitarian affairs and the Vice President's office. He inherits the machine that has to deliver an election and a reform programme at the same time.

INEC published Hope Uzodimma as the APC candidate for Imo West with 230,464 votes. A sworn affidavit in Okorocha's suit puts the count at 150,780 to 102,158 the other way. Both cannot be right.

Observers checked the announced results against their own count and the numbers held. Now civil society wants that treated as the floor for 2027, not as a good day that happened once.

Presidential and National Assembly campaigning opened on 19 August. Nigerians vote on 16 January 2027. That is five months of everything you are about to hear, and the shape of the contest is already visible.

The Federal Executive Council has approved a bill to decriminalise attempted suicide. Around 300,000 Nigerians attempt it every year, and until this passes, every one of them is committing an offence.

The 2026 policy meeting retained 150 for universities and colleges of nursing and 100 for polytechnics. It is a floor, not a threshold, and the difference matters to 1.5 million candidates.

The ADC campaign has moved from coalition talks to structure: coordinators inaugurated, a target set, and a youth movement recruiting across party lines to reach every polling unit.

A summit of opposition parties met on Tuesday to build a united front against Tinubu. The same people attempted the same thing in 2025 and it fell apart before it started.

A two-week tally of Nigerian violence: 106 incidents, 445 casualties, 256 people kidnapped. The North West accounted for 83 per cent of the abductions.

Tinubu has ordered a National Threat Assessment and a rolling five-year defence plan. The committee reports in November. The vote is in January.

Three South West states have declared Thursday a public holiday for Ìṣẹ̀ṣe Day. Lagos alone expects more than three million people, at an event the state has now backed four years running.

Analysts keep modelling a northern realignment that would put Tinubu under real pressure. The modelling usually assumes a level of coordination that has not so far materialised.

An estimated 34.7 million people were projected to face Crisis-level food insecurity or worse during the June to August lean season. It has barely featured in the opening of the campaign.